Dominica captured the Bronze Medal in the ECVA Men’s Final 4 tournament, defeating Grenada in straight sets 3-0 (25-19, 28-26, 26-24) at the YMCA, St. John’s Antigua and Barbuda.

Dominica came out strong, taking early control of the match by dominating the first set. Grenada responded with intensity, especially in the second set, but Dominica remained focused and closed the match in three sets to secure the bronze medal.

A dominant attacking performance gave Dominica the edge, with a 40-34 advantage in kills. Dominica recorded eight blocks, and both teams tied in service aces (4-4). In errors, the count was Dominica committing 27 and Grenada 24.

Yahn Florent led the scores with 13 points for Dominica followed by the Middle Blocker Nester James contributing 12. Grenada’s top scorer was Darron Oxford with 15 points.

Florent walked away with the Best Scorer award, Best Opposite and Best Receiver.

Dominica’s head coach Ithoma James reflected on the significance of the moment: “I am satisfied because at least we are going home with something”.

‘I am still disappointed because of our losses, and we could have won the silver or at least get into the finals”. The Bronze Medal is something and I am happy that the guys came back after two losses”. They were a little down and they picked themselves up”. I am proud of them; they came up to fight and show that they deserve something”.

Grenada’s assistant coach, Javin Noel was disappointed that the team lost all four matches.

“I feel disappointed for the team and coaching staff`”. We struggled to execute our game plan; however, we came out to dig deep”. We came out tonight and put everything on the line and I believe this was one of our better matches, however, Dominica got the better of us at the end of the game”.